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How are you rinsing them?So yesterday after a full res change and the addition of Hydroguard/Southern AG/Orca, I woke up to giant balls of slime on my roots. Overnight it went from cleaned roots to giant hanging globs of bacteria. I kneejerk rinsed the roots again and didn't get pictures. I'm sure whatever it is will be back by days end
I'm hoping this is the beneficial bacteria growing and not some adverse bloom of bad bacteria.
Has anyone seen this on introduction of bennies?
I use southern AG and I have never seen this. I can literally smell the better difference in water once the bennies are doing their thing, it took about a week of patience in 5 gallon buckets for me for them to establish to my low standards of smell testing and watching the ph stop spiking from baddies.So yesterday after a full res change and the addition of Hydroguard/Southern AG/Orca, I woke up to giant balls of slime on my roots. Overnight it went from cleaned roots to giant hanging globs of bacteria. I kneejerk rinsed the roots again and didn't get pictures. I'm sure whatever it is will be back by days end
I'm hoping this is the beneficial bacteria growing and not some adverse bloom of bad bacteria.
Has anyone seen this on introduction of bennies?
That's great to hear!!I started after the problems. But after a few days now, there's no more snot. And...I may be imagining it but, new growth is starting to get their color back.
There's little to no smell either just very low earthy smell like roots.
I think it was just an initial colony formation feeding on the bad stuff.
Look into defgaurd as a hydrogaurd replacement…. If i could get my hands on it up here thats what id run. Adding biomedia is also beneficial but when you have something thats working for you then really no reason to start meddlingI can saw from personal venture with southern ag that of you use to much of that stuff, the colony dies off faster than it can eat and live. This will in turn leave slime like shit in your rez, i have ran them all and using just recharge solo to make a tea out of 1x a week is the WTG hands down. Has everything you could ever possibly imagine good in it and never fails, that or hydrogaurd. Orca failed me, sag failed me, tps failed, sterile failed, pond zyme failed ect.
Recharge as a tea and hydrogaurd never ever fail
I just took em to the sink and used the dish sprayer to spray the roots clean. I have chlorine in the tap so that may have helped.How are you rinsing them?
Do you have pics?
I use only hydroguard and can go up to 2 months without res changes and 0 root rot. Not saying I dont have other issues, just root rot seems to be the least of my issues when running hydro. Its quite a learning curve when trying to combat it.
I seen he was using the tap water spray nozzle. I remember when I first started I got root rot, and did the same thing. I then got root rot 10x as bad. We found out that it was cause the chlorine in the water I was spraying was killing my colonies.Rinse and treat 3 days in a row… then let em go. There maybe something in your water source thats a food source. id look there next
Yeah the chlorine will help kill and reduce pathogens a d thats why you top feed and inoculate after each rinseI seen he was using the tap water spray nozzle. I remember when I first started I got root rot, and did the same thing. I then got root rot 10x as bad. We found out that it was cause the chlorine in the water I was spraying was killing my colonies.
Since hes live, shoudnt he be using water that sits out for 24hrs to rinse.
No not yet. I'll have to do that over the weekend.Did you sanitize your system before you put your plants back in/treated them again?
There ya go man… just trust in the system.So l...after rinsing everyday and letting the good bennies get settled my root zone EXPLODED! I'll post up pics later but just gotta say, wow. The triple combo just works (S AG, Orca and TPS billions) I'm kinda shocked at how vigorously they pushed bright white roots out.
My problem children soaked in Hygrozyme for a few hours today so we'll see what their turnaround is like.
The 88g13 is hurting pretty bad. Hope she turns around.
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